White Cart Viaduct

[terzo neil]

heard this yesterday from the engineer planning the job

the white cart viaduct M8 at glasgow airport will have average speed camera's, lane closures for heavy engineering for 9 months starting december this year

[wrx kenny]

fekin brilliant i start a full time job in greenock in the next few weeks , its a shi*e commute without more slowness at the best of times aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggghhh

hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

kenny

[mystery machine]

Glasgowshire just isn't a cool place for motoring, is it?

I used to head through from time to time, but haven't been for years... spend all your timing sitting in traffic

[StewartyBoy]

Glasgowshire just isn't a cool place for motoring, is it?

I used to head through from time to time, but haven't been for years... spend all your timing sitting in traffic

Seems councils and road departments cant communicate. For ages we have no-one working on the problems we have with uur roads, then all at once they decide to go for it causing chaos. The viaduct has cracks in it needing immediate attention, this was found before the completion of the M74 had started. Why was it not fixed first before causing 2 major roadworks on the one short stretch of M-Way.

Baffles me

[wrx kenny]

Seems councils and road departments cant communicate. For ages we have no-one working on the problems we have with uur roads, then all at once they decide to go for it causing chaos. The viaduct has cracks in it needing immediate attention, this was found before the completion of the M74 had started. Why was it not fixed first before causing 2 major roadworks on the one short stretch of M-Way.

Baffles me

maybe its , the manager managing the manager whos managing his manager, probably to many chiefs justifying their jobs getting feck all achieved

kenny

[marko72]

I hate roadworks. What job you doing down this way Kenny?

[jamesm]

As far as I am aware the White Cart Viaduct refurbishment is a long term project which has been ongoing since 2007 when we had the last set of roadworks and the lanes were narrowed. The contract for Phase 3 has been recently awarded and will take 9 months. This will include expansion joint replacement over a 12 week period where there will be lane closures and contraflow.

What I can't understand is how the hell can a motorway bridge built 30 years ago be life expired??!!

Kenny, I work in Greenock, what you going to be doing here? I spent a time commuting from Cumbernauld to Greenock which was a bit of drag. Train not an option?

[wrx kenny]

got a full time job at irh , our new government dont like paying locum salaries so sacked us all in may had to bite the bullet and go full time . Icant geta train early enough from airdrie to get me to greenock for 8 am so the car it is will use the erskine bridge me thinks

kenny